AP Stylebook Retweeted Erin Randel

Great post. I am an AP Stylebook junkie. I’ve read it cover to cover and use it as my editorial bible. (Looked up “bible” in the AP Stylebook before writing that last sentence. LOL) There are some entries I don’t agree with, so I may have to start my own book, The Maria Stylebook. I think it’ll be a huge hit.

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AP Stylebook Retweeted Woke Sub

Joe should appreciate Chicago’s completeness though; Chicago often has information that isn’t in other stylebooks. For example, in his question, Joe shortened the name of the book to Chicago instead of calling it The Chicago Manual of Style. As I was writing this article, I needed to know how to format a shortened book title. That information wasn’t in the AP Stylebook, but it was in Chicago. (I learned that you treat a shortened title just as you would a regular title--you and italicize it, or in the case of Grammar Girl style, it goes in quotation marks because listener questions are already italicized).

I used to use the print books, and I often had a hard time finding the information I needed. A few years ago, I started subscribing to the online versions of The Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Stylebook, and now I can search and find the answers I’m looking for in seconds. It’s a little more expensive than buying the print books, but for me, and I imagine for many people who write for a living, it’s worth it for the convenience.

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The AP Stylebook Online has numerous advantages over the print version. For example, it is searchable by keyword, and entries are hyperlinked: You can jump from one AP rule to a related rule.

Unlike potential issues,informational matches usually do not require correction. When you click on each“informational” match, it will display additional information about the word orphrase in the StyleGuard task pane, taken from the matching AP Stylebook entry.

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When the Show Informational Entries option ischecked, StyleGuard will include matches not only for potential errors but alsofor other words or phrases mentioned in the AP Stylebook collection. In thesummary displayed in the StyleGuard task pane above, StyleGuard found fourinformational entries and three potential issues (see reference point 2). Theseinformational items are tagged in the email the same way as the potentialissues – with a purple squiggly underline.

Moreover, the AP Stylebook Online is constantly updated to reflect changes in the names of corporations and government agencies (such as the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) and in terminology (whether “fracking” is acceptable shorthand for “hydraulic fracturing,” for example).